Page:Life and prophecies of that faithful minister of God's word, Mr. Donald Cargill.pdf/6

6 About this time bleſt Mr. M'Ward, Cargill, and others through the lands, who were of one heart and ſoul, ſeeing with one eye, thinking with one mind, and ſpeaking with one breath, met at Glaſgow to compare notes, and ſet a day apart for prayer together, to be more and more confirmed of their duty of giving warning of the ſin and danger of the malignant courſes driven on in that day by fraud and force, eſpecially calling home their head Charles IId. Mr. M'Ward was the firſt that prayed with more than ordinary enlargement and gale upon his ſpirit, earneſtly begging of the Lord, that in mercy, love and pity, he would ſeal, ſpirit, and fit a remnant to ſtand ſtedfaſt, whatever, and from whatſoever airth the winds might blow; and that there might be a ſucceſſion of faithful witneſſes raiſed up to follow the Lord fully in life and death: But Charles and his intereſt came not in his way. When ended, they challenged him for it; he ſaid, Let alone, if it be with you as it hath been with me, they would all go the ſame road; and ſo it was with all of them: From whence they concluded, that it would be waſted time and prayers that were ſpent about him. Mr. Cargill after that was never heard to pray for him in public. His unhappy birth and reſtoration-day, May, 20th 1660, which was enacted and made an univerſal Thankſgiving-day, became a trial to ſome, and a land-ſin and ſhare to many, and obſerved to this day, by caſtle-guns roaring, though even upon the Sabbath, at twelve of the clock: which day was Mr. Cargill's ordinary weekly ſermon-day. His kirk being very throng, with tears he ſaid, Do you expect more or better preaching this day than other days? or, is it upon account of your king? It is like that is many of your errands; for me, I deſire to be found in the way of my duty, being our ordinary day, otherwiſe I would not have preached a word upon that account. Rejoice not, O Iſrael, as other people rejoire; for thou art gone a whoring from thy God. And this is the firſt ſtep of your going a whoring